How quickly the veneer of the US being anything special at all fades. Now that we have secret police, we seem to have no problem recruiting sufficient thugs who are happy to mask up and anonymously disappear anybody without any of that bothersome “due process” stuff. And many of the disappeared are shipped to our new concentration camps. Human Rights Watch managed to report on what’s going on in them.
There are concentration camp guards, of course, and they’re acting exactly like concentration camp guards from the Holocaust camps, from the Soviet Gulags, and from concentration camps in every other authoritarian hellhole.
The thing is, these masked thugs and criminals, who will eventually offer the same “following orders” excuse that still echoes from the Nuremberg trials, come from the population of the US. Some of them might be neighbors, acquaintances, friends, even family. They will go to great, masked lengths to hide their identities, but you might know these guys.
